not in the friendliest of terrains for president obama, but as we saw last year in kentucky, a state that where the president did not prevail, our candidate was all about jobs, all about bringing people together to make the tough decisions to expand the economy and great jobs, and we prevailed, so i think you're going to see our candidates come through in this election. >> when you look at, montana, lamb ham, north carolina, washington state, all of those held by democrats, all look very threatened by pretty strong republican races, that's 50% of the seats you're defending. >> right. that's what makes it so exciting. >> yeah, yeah. you look excited. >> you look at some of those states, i mean, in the state of new hampshire where maggie hassen is running very competitively. she follows a republican governor that retired very popular. you look at washington state insy who wrote the book on jobs creation. and it's about wanting to see our country create jobs more quickly and some of those states, quite honestly, are in parts of the country geographically where it is tougher for the top of the tick